Entries from Kidlit tagged with 'jansson'
Parents in Kids' Books
Can we make some broad categories of how parents are represented in children’s books? I was reading All-of-a-kind Family to Sylvia tonight and thinking, the portrayal of Mama is really nauseating — it’s not enough for her to be wide...
What is it?
I’m reminded, this past week as I’ve been reading Moominsummer Madness to Sylvia, of a device that I reliably find really intriguing in children’s books: the characters are interacting with something familiar to the reader but outside of their experience,...
Complexity in Moominvalley
There is a lot I want to write about Tove Jansson’s Moomintroll books. Right now I just want to note, I think there is a good deal of complexity and nuance in Jansson’s characterizations, in the early books of the...
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